Music in Action Film

James Buhler is Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas, Austin. Mark Durrand is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Akron.

• Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Neil LernerList of ContributorsPreface: Sounds Like Action!James Buhler and Mark DurrandPart I: Action Scored: Politics, Representation, and IdentityFavela Chic in ActionSoundtracking Urban Violence in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilK.E. Goldschmitt"You’re Not Gonna Get Mushy on Me, Are You?"Music and the New Man in 1990s Hollywood Action FilmRebecca Fülöp"I Am No Lady When I Fight!"Gender Politics in the Postwar Swashbuckler ScoreGrace EdgarReviving the Swordplay Action FilmNature, Technology, and the Soundtrack for Seven Samurai Brooke McCorkle OkazakiConan the Neoliberal? The Sounds of Hypermasculine Entrepreneurship in Early Reaganite FilmJames Deaville Part II: Action Scores: Evolving Musical ConventionsUnderscoring Chased Heroes and Robbing VillainsMusic of Immediacy in New Hollywood Action Thrillers of the late 1960s and 1970sMichael BaumgartnerJohn Williams’s Action Music in the Twenty-First CenturyFrank Lehman"There and Back Again"Music and Generic Transformation in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit FilmsStephen C. MeyerStar Trek as Action FilmReimagining The Original Series’ SoundscapePaul SommerfeldA Tale of Two Cinemas:Zashchitniki (Guardians, 2017) and Music for the New Russian Superhero FilmJoan TitusPart III: Scoring Action: The Kinesthetic Experience and Production"Those Who Dance"Popular Music, Audiovisual Editing, and Meaning across the Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise Catrin WattsToward a Musical Understanding of Cinematic Action:Two Experiments with Embodiment and Musical Vitality in Film ExperienceMark Durrand Sound-Induced Visual Illusion in FilmSarah Louden"Humming the Foley, Singing the Sound"Designing Sound with a Musical PerspectiveVanessa Theme Ament Music, Digital Audio, Labor:Notes on Audio and Music Production for the Contemporary Action FilmJames BuhlerIndex